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From: Rainer Busch <busch@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Alias on ethernet interface
Date: 13 Dec 1996 22:09:40 GMT
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Brian Somers (brian@anorak.coverform.lan) wrote:
: In article <58olkl$j4p@samba.rahul.net>,
: Rainer Busch <busch@rahul.net> writes:

: : ifconfig ed0 addr.in.new.addrspace netmask 0xfffffff0
: : ifconfig ed0 addr.in.old.addrspace netmask 0xfffffff0
: : 
[...]
: but if you're running routed, you may wish to switch to gated.  It's
: supposed to be much better at *not* gratuitously removing routes.

I'm considering gated now, yes. Isn't it much harder to configure and
maintain ?

: BTW, I take it that it's just the above example that's missing the "alias"
: keyword.

Yes, you're right. Sorry about that.